“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is simply to transfer the onus of purpose to the next generation; the displacements amounts to a cowardly and potentially infinite delay. Your children's answer, presumably, will be to procreate as well, and in doing so to distract themselves, to foist their own aimlessness onto their offspring.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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